A Fast Food Restaurant Uses Full-Time and Part-Time Help to Meet

Essay

A fast food restaurant uses full-time and part-time help to meet fluctuating demand during the day. The following table presents projected need for workers at different times of the day: There is a maximum of four full-time workers and the other workers are part-time workers. Each full-time worker is there from 9:00 until 5:00, while the part-time workers will work for 4 consecutive hours at a cost of $4.00 per hour. The cost of the full-time worker is $50 per day. The company wishes to minimize total cost while meeting the demands. Formulate this as a linear programming problem. Carefully define all decision variables.